After Nick Viglione gets released from doing a five-year prison stretch for dealing heroin, he gets mixed up with psychopath heroin dealer Jimmy Petrocelli, (Cole Blackwell) instead of doing the right thing and going to work for his father Anthony Viglione, (John Imperioli) at his auto garage. Will Nick risk it all to make one last score? Will he be uptown for life, or will he be down and out forever?